Wednesday, November 14, 2012

For The Young (Or Young At Heart)

Owen Gleiberman and Lisa Schwarzbaum have admired all the studio's animated features leading up to this year's ''Brave'' (now on DVD), but they do have a pecking order; see where Scottish princess lands on their list.

They list all 13 Pixar feature films, and arrange them in order. I agree with their #1 and #2 pick "The Incredibles" would be #1, except that it took the runaway smash hit of the original "Toy Story" to get the franchise rolling. Respect, yo. The remainder of the list, though, I disagree with mightily. "Wall-E" is #4? "Ratatouille" is #9, ahead of "Monsters Inc." and "A Bug's Life"? Heck, "A Bug's Life" is #12 out of 13?

I am an unabashed fan of Pixar, owning all of the films except the current release of "Brave" (and only because it just came out. "The Incredibles" is one of my all-time favorite movies - animated or not - and both of my kids had Pixar movies as their "IT" movies - TheBoy had "Monsters Inc." and BabyGirl G. had "Finding Nemo" (for non-parents, the "IT" movie is the one your 2-4 year old decides that they need to watch 2-5 times a day for weeks on end. Yes, you *will* learn the dialogue by heart...).

A Top 3 for our time frame, it would have to be (in order) Cars, Finding Nemo, and Wall-E.

I'm guessing that those doing the rating have no children, or at least any in the appropriate age group for the time each movie was released (or available on DVD for us cheap bastards). Children in the home when each movie was released would definitely be the best critics: want to se it over & over & over & OVER (the above mentioned hits from this home resident expert's opinion) or 'nah, seen it'...as was the case the the sewer rats and the lawn chair geezer.

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